PMP Complete Spanish Grammar - 3.2

antepasado

ancestor

[My ancestor aunty is before the past.]

la campaña

campaign

[You’ll need to do make camp on your campaign.]

las Islas Canarias

Canary Islands

compasivo(a)

compassionate (m/f)

[Don’t be passive when it comes to being a compassionate person.]

estar a la moda, estar de moda

fashionable, to be in fashion

[A model usually wears what’s the mode for the day, but she never orders ice cream with her pie.]

franco; franca

frank; frank

[Francisco Franco was known for being quite frank with the people, men and women.]

el juez, la juez(a)

the judge, the madam judge

[A Jewess is concerned with the judgments of the Torah.]

agradable

pleasant

[I was able to get an A grade because I’m so pleasant and amiable.]

el cargo; el puesto

the position

[I like to be in the position of not having a little poo pesto in my Ford transit cargo van going to my Italian grandmother’s house.]

tenaz

tenacious

[You have to have a bit of pizzaz to be tenacious.]

por eso

that’s why; “for that”

estar a punto de

to be just about to (to be at a point of)

[I’m just about to be at point of having had enough of you!]